Body found in hotel room, death considered 'suspicious'

July 16, 2012 1:09:51 PM PDT

LIVERMORE, Calif. --

Police are looking into the death of a man whose body was found in a Livermore hotel room on Sunday morning, a police spokeswoman said.

An employee of the Doubletree Hotel at 720 Las Flores Road found the man, believed to be a Livermore resident, in a first-floor room and reported it to police just after 11 a.m. Sunday, Officer Traci Rebeijo said.

As of 11:45 a.m. today, the death is being treated as a suspicious as investigators await autopsy results, Rebeijo said.